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Remove DUST effect on FW.

Author
Arla Sarain
#1 - 2014-12-09 18:46:49 UTC
I hate to say this, but since DUST is relatively dead after the announcement of Legion, dying because PS3 is old like my grandmas fridge that was made in the soviet union, the DUST playerbase is not sufficiently high enough to maintain a healthy conflict on their FW part, and hence adversely affecting EVE FW.

Countless times you'd be bashing an iHub and then the system is flipped out of vulnerable. And not by a farmer or a defender, but by a DUST corp and their alt corp effortlessly flipping the district side by practically handing it over with no opposition.

DUST corps that do this are typically alts of EVE chars. Whilst I have no qualms about having chars across both games, there is simply not enough ways to communicate with DUST players to organise a mutual relationship between initially unrelated parties across 2 games.

I am not suggesting butcher it out of hate. Im saying you have to be reasonable. DUST FW is controlled. There is no conflict. Its one-sided. Letting it go on is just giving the side thats exploiting the dead game for benefits in EVE a huge leeway. DUST districts can amount to a difference in 40 of plexs (20% =600 points) from the nominal value, and double that between both sides (since as one side gains the benefit the other loses just as much). So at 1200 point difference, 80 complexes is an additional 13 hours of novices with no interruptions (even without the time to kill the rats).

Just remove the "link". Keep FW in DUST for those who do enjoy it.
Alternatively, allow us to talk on the same militia channel.

inb4 "why don't you get dusties to play with you?" - I would if there were players.
Epikurus
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2014-12-09 19:33:01 UTC
Arla Sarain wrote:

inb4 "why don't you get dusties to play with you?" - I would if there were players.



Even if there were players, pilots in EvE can have so little effect on DUST that it's not worth considering what we have as any kind of real link. We have no way of directing them to fight in the currently contested systems so whether one side or the other gets an advantage has from dusties in any particular battle has nothing at all to do with eve. It's just a case of a random effect that handicaps one side sometimes. Except its not random because one side is overwhelmingly powerful in each warzone, giving the related eve faction militia a permanent huge bonus awarded for doing nothing at all. The proportion of eve systems that have a positive score for one faction over the other in EvE due to the effect of DUST is, as of writing this post, 37 to 5 in the Minmatar/Amarr zone and 53 to 1 in the Gallente/Caldari warzone. There is nothing any pilot flying in space can do to effect this balance in any meaningful way and, as such, it should not be allowed to have such a significant effect on those of us who fly in the warzones.